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Be careful, the plants have ears. Or, more accurately, they are ears. In a boon to eavesdroppers, researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have figured out a way to reproduce speech by analyzing the surface vibrations of everyday objects....

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, people were already obsessing over the idea of voice command. The technology has a proud history of infiltration into nerd culture and pop culture alike. When Luke Skywalker's vocal communication with C3PO a...

Nuance announced a new Windows version of its speech recognition and dictation software on Thursday, and the company says NaturallySpeaking 12 is 20% more accurate than its predecessor. That's big news, because the current version 11.5 of NaturallySp...

As fun as Siri is on the iPhone 4S, you still need to push a button to get her to speak to you. With the Samsung Galaxy S III, users will be able to start interacting with their phones without ever touching them, thanks in part to technology from a s...

Until recently, the idea of holding a conversation with a computer seemed pure science fiction. If you asked a computer to "open the pod bay doors"—well, that was only in movies. But things are changing, and quickly. A growing number of people now ta...

Speech-recognition technology is making the world more accessible. Not only is it changing the way we use computers, but it is making our cellphones more useful and making our comes more connected. Speech recognition still has a long ways to go, thou...

Apple's iOS 5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is on the way, and now that the iOS5 beta software is available to developers, clues of a partially hidden feature have been uncovered: Nuance speech recognition, rumored to be tightly integrated within i...

You've probably heard of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the speech recognition software for PC and Mac that lets you do the talking, and it types everything you say. Now the new version 11.5 has been released, and it lets you use an iPhone as your microph...

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